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What If Women Designed the City? : 33 Leverage Points to Make Your City Work Better for Women and Girls / May East.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- East, May, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning.
- Women and city planning.
- Women in development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Axminster, England : Triarchy Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- The book builds on the assumption that women can contribute significantly more to urban planning and enrich urban environments and their own neighbourhoods. Based on walking interviews with 274 women, May East identifies 33 leverage points that can help make cities greener, wilder, more inclusive, more liveable, and more poetic!.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword One
- Foreword Two
- Preface
- 1 | The Context
- 2 | Women and Cities:A Co-Evolving MutualismPerspective
- 3 | Systems Thinking forUrban Systems Change
- 4 | Leverage Points: Placesto Intervene in a System
- 5 | Regenerative Design:Bringing Vitality to UrbanSystems
- 6 | Mapping Women's'Presency' through WalkingInterviews
- 7 | 33 Leverage Points toMake your City Work Betterfor Women and Girls
- 8 | Bridging the GenderGap in Urban Planning
- 9 | Afterword: Storylines
- Glossary of terms
- Categorisation of 33Leverage Points
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version: East, May What If Women Designed the City?
- ISBN:
- 9781913743888
- 1913743888
- OCLC:
- 1420621617
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